fume

1. (transitive) To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints.transitive

2. (transitive) To apply or offer incense to.Examples: "Tyrian garbs, / Neptunian Albion's high teſtaceous food [i.e., oysters], / And flavour'd Chian wines with incenſe fum'd / To ſlake Patrician thirſt: for theſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom."transitive

3. (intransitive) To emit fumes.Examples: "where the golden altar fumed"; "Young Chromis and Mnaſylus chanc'd to ſtray / Where (ſleeping in a cave) Silenus lay, / Whoſe conſtant cups fly fuming to his brain, / And always boil in each extended vein; / His truſty flaggon, full of potent juice, / Was hanging by, worn thin with age and uſe; [...]"intransitive

4. (intransitive) To pass off in fumes or vapours.Examples: "whose parts are kept from fuming away, not only by their fixity[…]"intransitive

5. (intransitive or reporting verb, figuratively) To express or feel great anger.Examples: "He’s still fuming about the argument they had yesterday."; "He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground."; "Her mother did fret, and her father did fume."figuratively

6. (intransitive, figuratively) To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.Examples: "Keep his brain fuming."figurativelyintransitive